ABSTRACT

Reducing policy to writing, then expanding again through reading, are constitutive as well as interpretative acts. The focus of this study is on ‘emancipatory reading’ of development policy writing, which deserves its own place in the spectrum of methods of analysis in development policy studies. Particular attention is paid to discourse analysis of development policy’s discursive activities. Singled out are the increasingly recognised stalwarts framing’ and ‘naming’; in addition ‘numbering’ and ‘coding’ merit being added to these.